Garden tub



Ot. 31, 1933. w, K. PECK ET AL 1,932,748

GARDEN TUB WaJJace, KPed/Q Waiaam R Brown.

A I 04W! Patented Oct. 31, 1933 UNITED STATES GARDEN TUB Wallace K. Peckand William R. Brown, Winchendon, Mass, assignors to Brown PackageCompany, Winchendon, Mass, a corporation of Massachusetts ApplicationApril 25, 1932.

1 Claim.

This invention relates to a tub particularly designed to receive agrowing plant or small shrub and commonly used on lawns or in gardens.It is essential that such a tub be elevated above the ground or othersupporting surface in order to provide ventilation beneath the tub, asotherwise the moisture of the ground will quickly destroy the tubbottom.

It is one object of our invention to provide improved means forelevating the tub above the ground or other supporting surface in suchmanner that the tub will be firmly supported and also accurately leveledwith respect to the surface on which it rests.

A further object of our invention is to provide a moisture-collectingand evaporating device by which the tub is rendered adaptable for indooruse.

Our invention further relates to arrangements and combinations of partswhich will be hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out inthe appended claim.

A preferred form of the invention is shown in the drawing, in which Fig.1 is a side elevation of our improved tub;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof;

Fig. 3 is a bottom View thereof, and

Fig. 4 is a detail sectional elevation, taken along the line 44 in Fig.1.

Referring to the drawing, our improved tub comprises a bottom 10 and acircumferential side wall 11. The side wall 11 is formed of a pluralityof vertically extending staves 12 held in assembled relation by theusual hoops 14. The staves are recessed on their inner faces asindicated at 16 (Fig. 4) to receive and firmly support the beveled outeredge portion of the bottom 10. The bottom 10 is provided with a plu-.rality of perforations 17 to permit the downward escape of excessmoisture.

As previously stated, it is desirable that the bottom 10 be spacedsubstantially above the ground or other surface'on which the tub rests,and that the space beneath the bottom be open to permit the freecirculation of air therethrough.

We have attained this result in our improved tub by extending certain ofthe staves 12 downward, as indicated at 20 in Figs. 1 and 4, to provideintegral supporting portions by which the tub is raised from the groundon which it rests. These extended stave portions 20 arecircumferentially spaced apart, as indicatedin Figs. 1 and 3, so thatthere is free circulation of air between the bottom of the tub and theunderlying surface.

The extended portions 20, being formed integral with certain of thestaves 1.2, have no possibility of displacement, and the ends of theportions 20 may be finished during the operation Serial No. 607,312

of turning the tub, so that the ends of the portions 20 are formed in aplane which is accurately parallel to the plane of the bottom 10.

In order to preserve the lower ends of the portions 20, and particularlyto prevent any splitting of the edges thereof, We preferably providesegmental caps 25 closely fitting over the lower ends of the portions20. Our improved tub not only has a prolonged life, by reason of theelevation of the bottom 10 and the provision of the caps 25, but the tubis also, of exceptionally pleasing appearance.

It is frequently desirable to remove a garden or lawn tub and plant tothe interior of a house, in which case leakage of moisture through theperforations 1'7 becomes objectionable. Accordingly we have provided apan 30 having spaced upward extensions or ears 31 adapted to be $9-cured to the bottom 10 by any suitable devices such as nails 32. Theupper edge of the pan 30 is spaced from the under surface of the bottom10 by the ears 31, so that air is free to circulate between the pan 30and the bottom 10.

It is found in actual use that this free circulation of air willevaporate the moisture collecting in the pan 30 with sumcient rapidityso that the pan does not overflow and does not require emptying.

Preferably the staves 12 extend sufiiciently below the bottom 10 toeffectively conceal the pan 30.

It will accordingly appear that we have provided a garden or lawn tub ofimproved construction and prolonged life and that we have also provideda tub which may be utilized for indoor use when desired.

Having thus described our invention and the advantages thereof, we donot wish to be limited to the details herein disclosed, otherwise thanas set forth in the claim, but what we claim is:-

A garden tub having a perforated bottom, a circumferential side wallwith a plurality of integral spaced downward extensions positioning saidbottom substantially above a tub-supporting surface, said bottom havingits circumferential edge portion positioned in an internal annulargroove in said side wall, a shallow moisture-collecting pan formed ofsheet material and having separated upward and outward extensions, andmeans to secure said extensions to the under side of said perforatedbottom, thereby suspending said pan from said bottom with the panunderlying the perforations therein but spaced from said bottom toprovide free air circulation thereover.

WALLACE K. PECK. WILLIAM R. BROWN.

